The moderation should be strict for parts of the forum, for example, chapter threads or the threads in the manga section. I can just stick to those parts when I dont want to browse through a pile of trash of one liners and dont want to see Z-S, Mihawk-Shanks, admiral-yonko related posts.
The other parts can be loosely moderated. For example, power level and arena threads. So if I am in a mood of trash talking, flame baiting, one liners, i can go there.
That's a good idea. Powerlevle and arena threads are up for all kinds of assumptions and battle anyway. But for the normal chapter, spoiler and manga threads it should be more organized
OT: I think stricter moderation might be helpful. Increase the number of moderators if possible. Each moderator is divided to each section they are responsible for.
That isn't the case yet? I thought usually mods have only specific sections they are responsible for. But I guess every forum handles this differently.
@Sievas Thanks for making that thread. As a fan who's been reading OP for 15+ years, I am somewhere between D and E (based on the beautiful explanation by
@Akai2 - probably part of the minority on WG), and I just feel the same as you....
I dont care much about the fandoms wars and all the memes (which I actually find equally amusing!! as long as it remains polite), BUT what bothers me is when you try to engage in a normal discussion about some theories or the story contents
in the chapter thread, after spending some time to think about how to articulate your logic or try to give some well-thoughts counter arguments to someone, then a swarm of users reply back with their baseless PL bullshit or "meh u stupid that's just bad writing, Oda sucks"... That's useless and rude, but unfortunately definitely not something the mods can monitor continuously (big thanks for their hard work all the time btw!!)
About that specific aspect above, maybe one possible solution to implement could be to make different threads (just like the separate threads for spo images & summary / spo discussion) : "chapter reaction" where people can go a bit wild, and a more serious "chapter discussion" thread strictly moderated? but probably very few users would be interested/participating, so i dont know if that would change anything
Thanks for your input! I too find some memes amusing and funny but often it just gets annoying when I try to read a discussion and have to scroll through all the bullshit. I don't know what the mods would say to two split posts for chapter discussion/reaction. I think reactions still contribute to discussing chapters. But the way you portray the reaction shows if it actually contributes to the discussion.
If the reaction is just
"Oh XY did this and that, they are the MVP *insert three emoji* *insert GIF*" and a 20 more people do it like that, it's not contributing to the discussion, instead it feels like spamming the thread and there's less to talk about. I still see a lot of posts who react like "I really liked this in the chapter and that, and I wonder if XY will do this and that soon. Do you guys think XY will do that thing because it looks that way". But they are being outweighed by the simpler versions above where you think "no point in answering in that I guess".
It's sort of like a classroom that opens up a debate or discussing about a material and while out of twenty people, ten try to focus on the topic, the other ten act as the class clowns and only randomly scream into the room making jokes. Of course it's funny for a while, but no class has half of its students being class clowns, but there's maybe two or three, that make the class more enjoyable. More than that and it becomes annoying and destroys the purpose of the class.
Even in the chapter discussion thread there is even the warning "Please avoid posting one-word/one-liner comments such as
"great chapter!" or
"awesome, I'll read it later!" and ensure that you contribute to the discussion with your content.", but if you scroll through the pages, there's still a lot of those, as if people don't care about that rule.
I don't want to sound like a dick but I honestly don't know how someone can feel harassed on the internet. Maybe because I am not of the same generation but it's hard for me to conceive.
Words are words, and words can hurt. And said words still come from another person just like talking to someone in real life. If someone outright insults you personally, be it something minor or for who you are, it hurts. If you have acne and hate it, and someone says in real life "your face looks like the garden of my mom, full of molehills", it hurts. If someone says that on the internet to you, it still hurts because you feel attacked. It isn't that hard to understand, right? You're leaning far into dangerous territory there. Especially when using "harassment", as it does have broader meaning and can be way worse than just an insult.
You can send me a 1000 PM to insult me, my family, my friends or whatever, I wouldn't care, probably laugh if the insults are creative.
I think the problem is we make a big deal nowadays of things that aren't a big deal. How is someone I don't know, that I've never met and will never meet calling me a moron supposed to affect my life?
It's great that you're this confident about yourself and that you don't care. But it's just like with all other problems in society. Just because it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean it doesn't affect others. It's like a seagull saying "I heard from the mouse that eagles are evil! That can't be possible because the eagle never did anything evil to me!". Or if you see someone trying to put out the fire on their house, you say "why are you doing this? My house isn't burning, so yours isn't actually burning either.", even though you see the fire right in front of you.